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Poetry Friday: Field Notes in My Pockets
Today’s Poetry Friday is over at Ruth’s blog: “There is No Such Thing as a God-forsaken Town.” One of my favorite tools as a writer are my Field Notes journals. They are small and lightweight and perfect for jotting down notes on the run. I have them in every…
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Poetry Friday: Walk and Talks
Today’s Poetry Friday roundup is over at Poetry for Children. I’m a big routine person. I know a lot of creatives who don’t write or create every day, but I tend to do better if I do. I noticed a few months ago that I loved my weekday routines,…
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Poetry Friday: Nature Journaling
Today’s Poetry Friday roundup is over at Kathryn Apel’s blog. Last year, I started exploring nature journaling. I’m not very good at drawing or painting. But I still wanted to try. No one needed to see my drawings, but I wanted to give it a go. I started with…
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Jumping Back in to Poetry Friday
It’s been years since I posted on Poetry Friday, a community of poets who post their poetry or about poetry each Friday. I’ve been working on writing poetry daily for about a year, so I’m going to attempt to share some of that here. I’ve also been sharing my…
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Chalk + Ink Podcast Extras
Recently, I was a guest on Chalk + Ink podcast with Kate Narita. It’s a podcast for teachers who write. If you aren’t subscribed, I highly recommend it. I’ve been listener for awhile, so it was an honor to be a guest. Link to the podcast episode I thought…
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Historical Fiction Mentor Texts: ReFoReMo 2021
Every year it’s such a joy to participate in ReFoReMo–Read for Research Month. It’s an opportunity to study mentor texts as a writer. There are hundreds of books featured this month. I’m there today talking about historical fiction picture books. Do you have a favorite historical fiction picture book?…
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Portals into Your Subject: Using Photographs as Research Tools
Have you ever come across a really interesting photo and thought: I wonder what the story is behind that photo? Or maybe you’ve had a topic in mind and as you research you find lots of interesting historic photos. This post isn’t going to be about how to find…
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Reading Challenges 2020
In 2020, I really wanted to drill down on some things in my writing and reading life. I wanted to make some routines for myself that I could latch onto. And then COVID19 came along and upended my routines. As of this date, my family is healthy. I’m thankful…
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2020: Getting Clear on My Vision for Myself as a Writer
Each year I look ahead and have way more goals in my brain (and on paper) than I could possibly accomplish. Over the years, I’ve started tweaking things to really fit my own personality and my own schedule. Joy in the Process Last year my phrase of the year…
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2019 Successes
Each year I post about my successes for the year. This might seem braggy-McBraggerpants. But it’s part of a program I do each year called 12 Days of Christmas for Writers. Also, in general, I tend to be really hard on myself, focusing on all of the things I…
